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The TradeMe Origin Story: How Rowan Simpson Turned a $10k Investment into a $750 Million Exit
Category: Sports & Recreation
Duration: 01:44:25
Publish Date: 2025-06-29 07:00:00
Description:

In this episode, we sit down with one of New Zealand’s most quietly influential tech investors and founders: Rowan Simpson.

As employee #3 at TradeMe and an early investor in Xero, Rowan helped build two of NZ’s biggest startup success stories.


But his story goes far deeper than money. He shares how he went from near-bankruptcy to the $750M TradeMe exit, his role in backing Kiwi founders, his philosophies on parenting, time, failure, AI—and why ‘business is like a rollercoaster’ metaphor is bullshit.
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